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Moving Your Career Up the Value Chain: Building Specialized Development Skills in a Global Economy
Stephen B. Morris
ISBN-10: 0-76867-931-1
ISBN-13: 978-0-76867-931-1
IT complexity is growing fast in most jobs. Jobs that traditionally required few skills now demand an increasingly broad range of abilities. This reflects the requirement for broader skill sets and increased worker flexibility. Surviving as a worker today is all about managing extra responsibilities and an ever-increasing range of day-to-day duties.
You can earn more, learn more, and go further in life by moving up the value chain–a broad term that represents the way in which your skills widen and deepen over time. In the workplace, you move up the value chain by acquiring and applying relevant new skills and knowledge and then using them to rapidly solve difficult problems.
You can prepare yourself for the growing levels of commitment and flexibility demanded by your employment. Moving Your Career Up the Value Chain will help by teaching concrete methods of evaluating your current position and striking forward to make improvements. You'll learn how to:
They say every journey begins with a single step. It is the same thing with moving up the value chain. There is no single destination in this journey. There are always areas in our lives where some improvement is warranted. Moving Your Career Up the Value Chain will help you find those areas and make the necessary improvements to propel your career–and life–to the next level.
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A Career Changer's Checklist - 12 Common Sense Questions to Find Your Career: Conclusions
A Career Changer's Checklist - 12 Common-Sense Questions to Find Your Career: Genesis
Application Contexts for Spring Web Services
Building a Solid Foundation for JPA and Hibernate
Five Steps to Getting Started Server-Side with PHP
Getting Started with Spring Web Flow
Hit the Ground Running with the Spring Framework
Hosting an LDAP Server in VMWare
Integrating Linux Into Your Windows Environment
Java DMK and Legacy IT Management
Moving C++ and Java Programmers Up the Value Chain
Spring Web Services with SOAPUI
The Key to Finding a Good Job in IT
Validation of XML in Data-Centric Systems
What’s Wrong with Modern Software Development?
Chapter 1
Are You a Follower or a Leader?
Chapter 2
Becoming a Specialized Generalist
Chapter 3
Improving Your Generalist Toolkit
Chapter 4
Delivering on Work Projects
Chapter 5
Developing New Skills on Your Own
Chapter 6
People High Up the Value Chain[md]Who They Are, What They're Like
Chapter 7
Where Do You Go from Here?